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Latest Sexual Offences stories on ABC Melbourne

At the Royal Commission into child sex abuse, the head rabbi of Melbourne's Yeshivah Centre has denied he delivered sermons implicitly criticising child sex abuse victims who had reported their abuse and accused the centre of covering it up. Rabbi Zvi Telsner conceded though that he had done ...

Calls for the resignation of one of Melbourne's Jewish spiritual leaders are intensifying, despite his apology in the Royal Commission yesterday. Rabbi Abraham Glick has admitted he failed to document reports of child sexual abuse. Eight hundred people have signed a petition calling for his ...

The child abuse Royal Commission has been told that the Northside Christian College in Melbourne failed miserably in its duty of care after 30 children were sexually abused in the 1980s and 1990s. The inquiry into serial offender Ken Sandilands has revealed explosive allegations that the senior ...

A petition is circulating in Melbourne's Jewish community calling on two senior administrators of Yeshivah College to resign and apologise for their handling of child sex abuse cases which occurred in the 1980s and 90s....

Latest Sexual Offences stories on ABC Online

It can now be revealed that Adrian Bayley, the notorious serial rapist who murdered ABC employee Jill Meagher in 2012, has been found guilty of three more rapes, two of which he committed just months before Ms Meagher was killed. The victims were a Dutch backpacker and two sex workers. Melbourne sex ...

The Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse has started a public hearing, tackling the complex issue of redress - how survivors should be properly compensated for the abuse they've suffered. The likely cost of payouts has been estimated at $4.3 billion to around 65,000 victims. Francis ...

The Australian-funded immigration detention centre on Nauru looks set to be the subject of another inquiry - this time by the Senate. Labor is likely to support a motion by the Greens to establish a Senate inquiry, which means it's likely to get up. The Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says she has ...

The Royal Commission into sexual abuse is about to hold public hearings on how best to compensate victims. Some victims feel they aren't getting justice through the criminal system because historical sex offenders are sentenced according to the laws and standards of the time, meaning many walk ...